Michael Gips is the principal of Global Insights in Professional Security, LLC, a firm that helps security providers and executives enhance security, develop cutting-edge content, assert thought leadership, and heighten brand awareness.

Security-provider lients include both brand names and startups in access control, weapons detection, executive protection, robotics, unmanned aerial systems, cyberthreat detection, insider risk management, investigations management, social media monitoring, and many more.

Corporate security clients represent a broad range of industries, including power, oil and gas, manufacturing, retail, financial institutions, associations, education, houses of worship, and aerospace/defense.

Mike previously served as the first Chief Security Officer of ASIS International, and was one of the principal architects of ASIS’s Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM) initiative.

Concurrent to his role as CSO, Mike was ASIS’s Chief Global Knowledge and Learning Officer, responsible for Editorial Services, Learning, Production, Certification, Standards & Guidelines, and the CSO Center for Leadership & Development, which he started in 2008.

Mike holds several certifications, designations and certificates, including the CPP (Certified Protection Professional), CSyP (Chartered Security Professional), Insider Risk Programme Manager, and CAE (Certified Associaton Executive). He has taken executive level courses in security from the Wharton School, IE Business School, Tel Aviv University International, and the R.L. Oatman School of Executive Protection.